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Independence in Everyday Ramblings
Carlo and I are back in Portland in the loaner apartment we are calling Alice. Carlo is pretty traumatized by all this. He went missing for about three hours after coming out briefly to inves...
Van Life, Without the Van in Everyday Ramblings
The tulip here has special meaning. My oldest sister, who is no longer with us, sent the bulbs to my middle sister, Kes, a number of years ago and it is still blooming. Today we have sun and i...
Askance in Everyday Ramblings
Here we are, hanging out in the basement room at my sister’s house about an hour south of Portland. The transition was hard on Carlo but today, four days in, he is starting to be less crazy vi...
Skeptical in Everyday Ramblings
For most of the last 13 years or so we have been at the beach on the 15th. Not this year. Kes and Most Honorable are going down on Wednesday and a friend of theirs is coming to visit while the...
Movie Reviews and Palm Raises in Everyday Ramblings
I used this as a front photo for the recorded mat practice this week. It is from a few years back. Our tulips aren’t open yet but getting there. I think it expresses well that getting out ther...
Flourishing Undramatically in Everyday Ramblings
I love the shape of this tree. We are having a lot of rain but there are breaks where one can get out and see blooming and blossoming and budding. Last Monday I read a poem in class to my stu...
Even a Little Blue Sky Helps in Everyday Ramblings
We finally have blue sky again this afternoon, at least for a couple of days, and can see our late spring beginning to unfold. I have the departure dates cleared for the displacement from my ...
Ebb and Flow in Everyday Ramblings
From across the street two days ago. This morning it snowed. I am sorry but that is against the rules. Has the weather gone rogue? We all know the answer to that question. It was pretty snow,...
Happens to the Best of Us in Everyday Ramblings
A fading but lovely hellebore in the morning light with a bunch of sturdy daffodils. Finally, we are seeing spring, just past the equinox. The trees have started budding, the crocuses opening...
Things Gotten Up Too in Everyday Ramblings
We finally had some beautiful, even kind of warmish, sun and the local crocuses opened up yesterday. Makes a winter weary heart sing. Besides teaching my classes I got a few things done this ...
One Can But Dream in Everyday Ramblings
We have sunshine. It is only partial, and it will only last a few hours but what a welcome visitation. We had snow and sleet yesterday at the higher elevations here in the city. I am being lazy...
Who Knows? in Everyday Ramblings
I can almost tastes the orange here. It is still cold and wet, but after today it is supposed to warm up and stay above freezing maybe even for the season. It is about time. And it looks like t...
Roll With It, Baby in Everyday Ramblings
A bit of a contrast with the snow in the last post. I did take this today, in a spot that I have been watching for weeks looking for signs of spring. When I went out in the weak sunshine, walki...
Our "Weather Event" in Everyday Ramblings
It may not look like it here in this shot of the empty house across the street, but we had a record-breaking snowfall (since 1943) on Wednesday. It is now Saturday, and everything is still not h...
And Here We Are in Everyday Ramblings
The hellebores are finally coming on. It’s raining today. We need it. Thank you all for your condolences. Carlo is doing fine. We are a little shy around each other getting used to it being onl...
Adios in Everyday Ramblings
That is Diego on the left, a relatively recent picture. He died last night. It was probably a stroke, a blot clot cut loose. He died in the carrier on my lap on the way to the emergency vet. Th...
Cut Loose in Everyday Ramblings
It is Friday afternoon, and I just recently received an email about the work on my outside wall… “I am writing to inform our residents that there has been a delay in the exterior repairs schedul...
Show and Tell in Everyday Ramblings
Will you look at that sky? It is the most beautiful thing. We had clear skies almost all day on Thursday. And it was not cold! It wasn’t warm, but it also wasn’t cold. I have had the biggest ou...
Peace, Love, Understanding and Rascals in Everyday Ramblings
If you look closely at the center of the picture you can see beautiful Mt. Hood past the river. The days we get to see her all snow clad in the winter are rare and always worth celebrating. One ...
Annoyed in Everyday Ramblings
From a walk this morning just after class. Fabulous light. I had to get out of the house. There are so many benefits to being a renter and I have a nice apartment but…First it was the painters, ...
Ready or Not in Everyday Ramblings
This is from January 27th a number of years ago when I was out wandering about this city that I live in. I haven’t been taking that many pictures this year. It is a combination of the gloomy col...
Never, Ever in Everyday Ramblings
I took this on the 25th of January 2014. Nine years ago. On a walk, just across the river. I wouldn’t do that walk on my own anymore. Too many unsheltered and drug addled folks over there to be ...
Apparently, I am the Girl in Everyday Ramblings
Random photo from a walk on Tuesday when it was dry. Yay. It is supposed to be dry again today. Nice. I am getting pretty comfortable in my rain pants though, so it feels a bit easier to be out...
Out in the Expanding Universe in Everyday Ramblings
A view of the river the other direction from up top the hill in the background in the photo from the last post. A break in the rain. We even had a little bit of blue sky yesterday. Diego is stab...
In Stitches in Everyday Ramblings
The view from the Faculty Dental office yesterday. My place is just out of frame to the left. I have to cross all those freeways to get down to the clinic. We have pedestrian bridges. They tore ...
